{"id":226316,"date":"2026-03-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/alberta-looking-at-legislation-to-rein-in-the-harmful-side-of-artificial-intelligence-smith-says\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T08:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:20:13","slug":"alberta-looking-at-legislation-to-rein-in-the-harmful-side-of-artificial-intelligence-smith-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/alberta-looking-at-legislation-to-rein-in-the-harmful-side-of-artificial-intelligence-smith-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta looking at legislation to rein in the harmful side of artificial intelligence, Smith says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alberta looking at legislation to rein in the harmful side of artificial intelligence, Smith says<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-03-22 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Premier Danielle Smith says she and her ministers frequently make use of artificial intelligence to help understand issues and analyze data, while acknowledging her government is also working on legislation to protect Albertans from some of the technology\u2019s more dangerous outputs like \u201cdeepfakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI use ChatGPT very frequently when I\u2019m trying to understand a particular issue. It\u2019s really very helpful for me to understand what\u2019s going on in the world and to see if there are policies that are taking place elsewhere that we should be adopting here,\u201d Smith told listeners of her Saturday radio show.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I use it. My ministers use it. We\u2019re using it to analyze a huge amount of data. That\u2019s the one of the best things that AI can be used for is that a human brain can only process so much data, and AI can process it very quickly, so that we can use it and understand it and how to make decisions,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou still have to check for errors. \u2026 I mean, what I always say is give me a sort of a framework of what your interpretation is, and then let\u2019s talk to a real person to see if that washes \u2014 and it\u2019s working really well for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith acknowledged concern that AI might replace \u201ccertain types of jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess the way I\u2019ve always looked at, and I think I\u2019ve said it here before, is that a person who knows how to use AI is going to replace a person who doesn\u2019t know how to use AI. It\u2019s going to be a tool to make us all more productive,\u201d the premier said.<\/p>\n

However, in response to a question from program host Wayne Nelson, Smith also said her government is looking at what safeguards should be in place against harmful AI use, and what the guidelines should be in schools.<\/p>\n

Worry about fake images<\/h2>\n

\u201cThe ones that I\u2019m worried about are the deepfakes of people being duped into thinking because of a person looking like a real person and sounding like him, that that is a real image. So there will be some legislation that is around…<\/p>\n

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